My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I… — Elliott Carter Copy Share
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
